{"id":149577,"date":"2018-01-29T05:23:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T10:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=149577"},"modified":"2025-01-10T08:22:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T13:22:35","slug":"russian-opposition-leader-navalny-arrested-amid-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/29\/russian-opposition-leader-navalny-arrested-amid-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian opposition leader Navalny arrested amid protests"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: Navalny, the most prominent foe of President Vladimir Putin, organized the protests to urge a boycott of Russia’s March 18 presidential election, in which Putin is sure to win a fourth term. (Photo by Eugeny Feldman – https:\/\/vk.com\/teamnavalny, CC BY-SA 4.0)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MOSCOW \u2014 Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was wrestled to the ground and forced into a police vehicle Sunday as he headed to a Moscow protest that was part of a day of nationwide demonstrations.<\/p>\n

Navalny, the most prominent foe of President Vladimir Putin, organized the protests to urge a boycott of Russia’s March 18 presidential election, in which Putin is sure to win a fourth term.<\/p>\n

The anti-corruption campaigner was denied permission to be a presidential candidate because of an embezzlement conviction in a case widely seen as politically motivated.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s protests gathered crowds through the sprawling nation despite frigid temperatures. Navalny’s web page showed a small group of protesters in remote Yakutsk, where it was minus 45 Celsius (minus 49 Fahrenheit).<\/p>\n

A crowd that police estimated at 1,000 people assembled in central Moscow’s Pushkin Square, brandishing placards reading \u201cThey’ve stolen the election from us\u201d and \u201cElections without Navalny are fake.\u201d<\/p>\n

Navalny was arrested as he walked down a main thoroughfare to the demonstration. Video on his YouTube channel showed Navalny struggling with police before they pushed him to the ground and then into a bus.<\/p>\n

He called on supporters to continue the demonstrations despite his arrest.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have detained me. This doesn’t mean anything,\u201d he said on Twitter. \u201cYou didn’t come out for me, but for your future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hours earlier, police raided Navalny’s Moscow headquarters, where there is a studio for live video transmissions. One broadcaster on the stream said police apparently were using a grinder to try to get access to the studio.<\/p>\n

The anchors said police said they had come because of an alleged bomb threat.<\/p>\n

One anchor, Dmitri Nizovtsev, was detained by police during the raid, according to video broadcast by the headquarters. Navalny’s Moscow co-ordinator, Nikolai Lyaskin, also was detained Sunday, the Interfax news agency quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n

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Demonstrations were reported throughout the country. Local news reports said about 1,000 Navalny supporters were marching in St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n

The OVD-Info group, which monitors political arrests, reported scores of demonstrators had been detained at protests in cities including Murmansk, Ufa and Kemerovo.<\/p>\n

Several hundred demonstrators assembled in the Pacific port city of Vladivostok, complaining both of Putin’s rule and of Navalny’s exclusion from the March 18 presidential election.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey took these elections away from us, they took away our votes. Our candidate was not allowed to run,\u201d said Vladivostok demonstrator Dmitri Kutyaev.<\/p>\n

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Navalny rose to prominence with detailed reports about corruption among top Russian officials, which he popularized on social media to circumvent state control of television.<\/p>\n

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Last year, he called for two demonstrations that attracted people throughout the country, undermining critics’ claims that he appeals only to a narrow segment of prosperous Russian urbanites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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